BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

Apologies if this has already been asked but it's hard to find info online.

Are the X1 and X2 buses going Southside direction that have replaced the 84x not going up Kildare Street and turning onto Stephen's Green anymore?

Was waiting on the X2 scheduled to leave Hawkins St at 16.15 yesterday but the 84x stop was gone and there was no sign of any X bus appearing on the live update sign that's there either. Not sure if it eventually showed up.

Thanks!

I think so, as disastrous as the G spine but a far greater population is affected by it. Also it's the biggest change for customers so far. The C, H and G weren't that big a change from previous routes

This is the most significant spine implemented so far and so far a total dogs dinner from the start, no communication and a worsening of service for all affected customers other than those travelling after midnight.

I see where you mean never knew there was a roundabout in there

What difference does it make if a service is provided by a bus or a tram once it's reliable and efficient?

Walking down Hawkins street last night evening and noticed a new style bus stops has been installed with the X1 and X2 timetables and details on it. Which would be really great if the older stop wasn't still there right beside it with the 84X timetables in situ!

Extend it to Heuston and make it a 24h service. The H spine is such an outlier terminating just shy of the city centre rather than going through it, plus not being 24 hours.

The idea at the start was to only have the major spines running through College Green (Spines A, E and F) while all other routes (radials, peaks, expresses) would use different routes. This would have also eliminated the turns at O’Connell Bridge. It was the “connect” in “BusConnects”. However, they’ve now sent the 19 southbound through College Green, so there could be more exceptions. It would have been better to send the 19 down Gardiner Street to Merrion Square in my opinion, as is the plan with the other radials.

The X2 loop of Cherrywood is a bit ridiculous in its current form, especially for an ‘express’ route. The Charlesland loop too. Going to Greystones, it’s quicker to get the train. Going to Kilcoole or Newcastle, it’s quicker to get the 133 to Kilpedder or Newtown and walk, as unsafe as it is on a winter morning/night!

If you work in the area of Dawson St./Kildare St. and want to get back to Heuston Station, my advice would be to get an E1 or E2 from Dawson St. to Westmoreland St., then walk around the corner to Aston Quay where you can pick up the No. 4 at stop 325. If you can walk a little further, you can pick up any of the the Cx buses at stop 7392. TFI Live currently showing five of them arriving in the next 10 minutes.

As you pointed out, the No. 4 from Heuston Station stops in Nassau St. and, for someone heading to the N11 who used to get the 145, all they have to do now is walk (33m) back to stop 406 and pick up the E1 or E2. The problem on the reverse journey is that the No. 4 heading to Heuston does not overlap the E1/E2 routes anywhere as it goes anti-clockwise around TCD.

Agree, the radials need to cross the city but that doesn't mean OCS, the powers that be are just completely obsessed with O'Connell Bridge, there are so many bridges with nobus service crossing them

The S4 was very bad during the morning rush hour today as well. One person on Reddit was saying tonight that out of the 9 buses that were meant to run on the S4 between 7am & 8:30am this morning while waiting at Milltown Luas stop. 5 of them were cancelled.

Also did you see any big timekeeping issues occurring with the 26 at Liffey Valley SC today?

Another poster on Reddit was saying that the 26 was running with huge delays in it's timetable.